Improvement in hoop-skirts



- 2 Sheets--Sheet 1. M4. P.l BRAY. Hoop-Skirts.

No.l1l6,866.` Patented1an.27,1874.

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2 Sheets--Sheet 2.

M. P. BRAY. Hann-Skirts.

Patented Jan. 27, 1874.

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PATENT OFFICE.

MORRIS I". BRAY, OF NEV HAVEN, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND DOW'N S 8sBASSETT, OF BIRMINGHAM, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN HOOP-SKIRTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 146,866, dat d January27, 1874 application filed December 4, 1873.

To all fwhomit may concerny Be it known that I, MORRIS I. BRAY, of NewHaven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, haveinvented a new Improvement in Hoop-Skirts; and I do hereby declare thefollowing, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings andthe letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of thisspecication, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a front or outside view of a portion of one tape with severalsprings attached; Fig. 2, an inside view of the same; and in Fig. 3, atransverse section on line of one of the springs.

This invention relates to an improvement in the method of securing thesprings to vertical tapes of hoop-skirts; and it consists in a skirt inwhich the tapes are made double (double warp and llin g) over a portionof their width at one or more pointsthat is, with one or morelongitudinal pockets, and the several springs passed transverselythrough the double portion, entering at one edge ot' the double portion,and coming out at the opposite edge, but'upon the same side of the bodyof the tape, as more fully hereinafter described.

A is the tape, woven double longitudinally at B. If but one such doubleportion, it should be at the center, as shown; but if two such doubleportions are formed, they should be a little distance from the edge ofthe tape. The springs C are inserted at the desired distance, greater orless, by using a skirt-needle, and running it in at one edge of thedouble portion, as at a, Fig. 3, thence between two thicknesses, and outat the opposite edge, as at d; but upon the same side of the tape properas it entered. This supports the springs in their position vertically,and the springs are prevented from transverse movement by tacks b,

or otherwise.

By this construction the springs may be inserted at any point, and notconfined to a predetermined point, as in the use of tapes made withtransverse pockets.

I do not claim as of my invention a tape having a longitudinal pocketwoven therein, as such I am aware is old.

I claim as my invention- A hoop-skirt formed with a series of verticaltapes, A, constructed double a portion oi' their width, and a series ofsprings passed transversely through the said double portion of the tape,the said springs entering the tape at one edge of the double portion,and passing' out at the other edge of said portion, and upon the sameside ot the tape, as herein described.

MORRIS P. BRAY.

Witnesses A. J. TIBBlTs, J. H. SHUMWA'Y.

